The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1887-02-10
Food Sophistica!iuns.

There is no such thing in this city as
the adul,cration of articles of food, as 4
sanitary question: said Health Commis-
sioner De Wolf, of Chicago, to an Eren.
ing Journoi reporter who asked him to
what extent our food supply was adul-
terated. "There is Il sophistication of
articles of food, and that sophistication is
a commercial fraud, but that is all there
is to it. The sophistication of cane su.
gar by glucose is not a sanitary question,
for glucose is as healthy as cane sugar.
The mixture Of certain fruits with pep
per berry to the extent offs, 10, or - per
cent is q fraud upon the consumer, but
has no insanitary feature. So with the
sophistication of all spices. The mixture
of ground lemon shucks and ground
cocoanut shucks with spices is CONNER
cially fraud, but it does not affect the
sanitary product Ccllecs arc sophisti-
Gated and aduterated toreduce the price,
ard the Rio coffee berry is by process
OF roasting aud polishing made 10 resem-
bic the Old Government Java. Elours,
the various preparations of oatmeal, and
starch of all kinds, are neither sophis!i-
Gated nor adulterated in any way in our
city. The most our chemist finds in our
milk is the addition Of water or the
renlova! of cream. There is occasionally
found, however, in pickles, cooked and
prepared for market, slight trace Of
copper. This copper is usedto give them
the bright glccn tint That IS poisonous
and is Objectionable. 1. is probably true,
also, that there have been times in this
city within the last ten years when con.
fectionery was colored with some salts
which are highly Objectionable, but |
presume this custom has ceased. 1t is
true, with the exceptions have told you,
there is no adultcration. 1t may be true
that peas are USED TO sophislicatc coffee.
'"They make coffee berries out Of them.
That is getting to be quite an industry
down in Connecticut, where they manu-
facture wooden nutmcgs. That is a
commercial fraud, but has no insanitary
feature. l have heard, also, that honey
was found in the comb in beautiful cuts,
where neither The comb nor the contents
had ever seen beehive. The comb WAS
manufactured out Of parallinc, and the
cells were filed with glucose. but that is
not a sanitary violation. is il CONNER
cial fraud, honey is glucose. People
prefer spices that are sophisticated.
They WON'T buy and pay for spices that
are pure Some time ago Il wholesale
grocery firm sent oil. all through this
community, at my request, spices that
they guaranteed to pc perfectly pure and
free from any sophistica,ion, and they
only got one oricr, and that was from
General Phil Sheridan The rest Of the
people had rather pay nine cents pound
for pepper ground, when they know that
the good berry cannot be bought for less
than eleven cents, for they know that the
adulteration doesn't hurt anything, and
answers just as we'll. People in this city
will not buy and pay for condiments
which responsible firms guarantee to be
free from sophislication. They prefer a
sophisticated article at lower price. In
short, our great food products made up
Of the various preparations Of flour,
wheat, rye, oats, all our starchcs, aud all
kinds OF flesh meat are perfectly pure.